Does the Bush Foreign Policy Revolution Have a Future?
James M Lindsay & Ivo H Daalder, January 2004 The World Today, Volume 60, Number 1 Download article here For the past three years, and especially since the September 11 2001 attacks, a common critique of American foreign policy under President George Bush has run as follows. The administration’s foreign policy is all brawn and no brain; military force has replaced diplomacy and negotiations as Washington’s main foreign policy instrument. The president is a foreign policy lightweight who knows little about the world. Therefore, foreign policy is run by Bush’s advisers, especially Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. For all intents and purposes, Bush has been the puppet of darker forces in his administration, above all the neo-conservatives, who in Senator Joe Biden’s words ‘captured the heart and mind’ of the president. While we share many of these criticisms and very much fear the chosen direction, we believe that this caricature of Bush’s foreign policy i
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